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Is rhyme a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word rhyme is a Scrabble US word. The word rhyme is worth 13 points in Scrabble:

R1H4Y4M3E1

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Yes. The word rhyme is a Scrabble UK word and has 13 points:

R1H4Y4M3E1

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5-letter words (1 found)

RHYME,

4-letter words (2 found)

HERM,HERY,

3-letter words (12 found)

ERM,HEM,HER,HEY,HYE,MEH,REH,REM,RHY,RYE,YEH,YER,

2-letter words (9 found)

EH,EM,ER,HE,HM,ME,MY,RE,YE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 25 words from rhyme according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 5 letters words made out of rhyme

rhyme hryme ryhme yrhme hyrme yhrme rhmye hrmye rmhye mrhye hmrye mhrye rymhe yrmhe rmyhe mryhe ymrhe myrhe hymre yhmre hmyre mhyre ymhre myhre rhyem hryem ryhem yrhem hyrem yhrem rheym hreym rehym erhym herym ehrym ryehm yrehm reyhm eryhm yerhm eyrhm hyerm yherm heyrm ehyrm yehrm eyhrm rhmey hrmey rmhey mrhey hmrey mhrey rhemy hremy rehmy erhmy hermy ehrmy rmehy mrehy remhy ermhy merhy emrhy hmery mhery hemry ehmry mehry emhry rymeh yrmeh rmyeh mryeh ymreh myreh ryemh yremh reymh erymh yermh eyrmh rmeyh mreyh remyh ermyh meryh emryh ymerh myerh yemrh eymrh meyrh emyrh hymer yhmer hmyer mhyer ymher myher hyemr yhemr heymr ehymr yehmr eyhmr hmeyr mheyr hemyr ehmyr mehyr emhyr ymehr myehr yemhr eymhr meyhr emyhr

Note: these 'words' (valid or invalid) are all the permutations of the word rhyme. These words are obtained by scrambling the letters in rhyme.

Definitions and meaning of rhyme

rhyme

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation, General American) enPR: rīm, IPA(key): /ɹaɪm/
  • Homophone: rime
  • Rhymes: -aɪm

Etymology 1

From Middle English rim, rime, ryme (“identical sound in words from the vowel in their stressed syllables to their ends; measure, meter, rhythm; song, verse, etc., with rhyming lines”), from Anglo-Norman rime, ryme, Middle French rime, ryme, and Old French rime, ryme (“identical sounds in words from the vowel in their stressed syllables to their ends; song, verse, etc., with rhyming lines”) (modern French rime); further etymology uncertain, possibly either:

  • from Latin rhythmus (“rhythm”), from Ancient Greek ῥῠθμός (rhuthmós, “measured motion, rhythm; regular, repeating motion, vibration”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *srew- (“to flow; a stream”); or
  • borrowed from Proto-Germanic *rīmą (“calculation; number”) (whence Old English rīm (“a number”)), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂rey- (“to arrange; to count”) and *h₂er- (“to fit, put together; to fix; to slot”).

Noun

rhyme (countable and uncountable, plural rhymes)

  1. (countable, uncountable) Rhyming verse (poetic form)
  2. A thought expressed in verse; a verse; a poem; a tale told in verse.
  3. (countable) A word that rhymes with another.
    1. (countable, in particular) A word that rhymes with another, in that it is pronounced identically with the other word from the vowel in its stressed syllable to the end.
  4. (uncountable) Rhyming: sameness of sound of part of some words.
  6. (linguistics) The second part of a syllable, from the vowel on, as opposed to the onset.
    Coordinate term: onset
    Meronyms: nucleus, coda
  7. (obsolete) Number.
Alternative forms
  • rime (archaic)
  • rhime (obsolete)
Hyponyms
  • stave-rhyme, end rhyme
  • internal rhyme, cross rhyme
  • half rhyme, near rhyme:
    • pararhyme, slant rhyme
  • full rhyme, perfect rhyme, exact rhyme, true rhyme
Derived terms
Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English rimen, rymen, rim, rime (“to recite or write verse; to sing songs; to tell a story in verse; to fit into verse; (figurative) to agree, make sense”), from Anglo-Norman rimer, Middle French rimer, and Old French rimer (“to rhyme (a word) with another word; to write verse”) (modern French rimer), Old French rime, ryme (noun): see etymology 1.

Verb

rhyme (third-person singular simple present rhymes, present participle rhyming, simple past and past participle rhymed)

  1. (transitive, intransitive) To compose or treat in verse; versify.
  2. (intransitive, followed by with) Of a word, to be pronounced identically with another from the vowel in its stressed syllable to the end.
  3. (reciprocal) Of two or more words, to be pronounced identically from the vowel in the stressed syllable of each to the end of each.
  4. (intransitive, figurative) To somewhat resemble or correspond with.
  5. (transitive, obsolete) To number; count; reckon.
Alternative forms
  • rime (archaic)
Derived terms
  • rhyme off
  • rhymes-with-rich
  • rhyming slang
Translations

References

Further reading

  • rhyme on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “rhyme”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

Anagrams

  • Hymer, Myhre

Yola

Noun

rhyme

  1. Alternative form of reem

References

  • Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 64

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